There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
